Education for a tuesday morning

I have learned three things today while sitting in the dentist's chair all morning with my mouth shoved wide open:

1. It is best to get your teeth cleaned and checked on a regular basis, even if this means you have to go to a dental school for a discount or pay out of pocket for the real deal. Because what happens is you end up with many, many cavities and the Time Has Now Come to Pay the Piper and It Is Not Pleasant.

2. It's hard not to roll your eyes and snort when your dentist is bragging about all his high school and college sports records that he holds and also how he ran up this huge hill last night in the sweltering heat and also that his great-great-grandfather was a world champion sharpshooter, etc, etc, etc. He probably also invented the internet.

3. If you listen to an Indie radio station while getting dental work done, chances are you'll have a few moments where you feel like your life is a cool indpendent film and you think "Maybe I AM one of those girls that can wear a skirt over their jeans and not look like an idiot!" and then you remember who and where you are.

Who knew?

Did you hear the news? Yeah, the Backstreet Boys are still a band!

What a sick and twisted world...

This guy is jugding America's Got Talent? Are you kidding?

(Kudos, though, Mr. Hasselhoff on the generous use of dachshunds in your video)

And you thought your job was exciting...

The other night, I had a dream in which my coworkers and I were at the 6NW nurses station and we were told that they had just approved the budget for SIX NEW ADJUSTABLE COMMODES and everyone went mad with cheers and excitement. I think someone was even being carried on shoulders.

I have to get a life.

The stuff really works...

No, this isn't a strange fungus growing on my hands. It's part of a Dr. Scholl's shoe insert super-glued firmly to my fingers. I'll leave the rest up to your imagination.

Don't go breakin' my heart...

I'm being stalked. This kitty showed up outside my bathroom windown tonight. I gave it some general love, a little food and then it ran in my apartment when I opened the door. It looked around each room as if to say "Mmmm, yes, this will do" and now that I've put it back outside, its just sitting outside, staring at me and meowing at me to let it in.

I am a weak, weak person. And I think it senses how madly I want a cat right now.

Must. Resist. Urge. To. Let. Cat. Take. Over. My. Life.

Come Again?

Just this moment, Nathan said I reminded him of Sam the Eagle. He said he thought twice about saying it "because I wouldn't understand", but said it anyway. Thank. You.